| Edoardo Costa | |
|---|---|
| Born | Edoardo Cicorini August 7, 1967 Varese, Italy |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Website | |
| edoardocosta.com | |
Edoardo Cicorini (born August 7, 1967), better known as Edoardo Costa, is an Italian actor, entrepreneur and former model. His career began in the fashion industry as a model in the early 1990s for the modeling agency Why Not. Desiring something more, he began studying acting in Paris and Milan as well as in Los Angeles. He soon made television appearances on various American television series including Baywatch, Arliss and The Bold and the Beautiful.
Costa also made a variety of independent American films leading to his debut in a first major feature as the terrorist Emerson, in the final installment of the Die Hard series, Live Free or Die Hard, with Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.[1] His first major role in an American film was in the soon to be released drama Kiddie Ride, directed by Harold Guskin and starring James Gandolfini and Famke Janssen.
Costa continues to work in both the United States and Italy. He has made forays into theater in the plays, Bread Love Fantasy and Very Old Man, alongside Italian acting legend Marcello Mastroianni (Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita) and worked on numerous Italian soap operas, television series, films and reality shows.
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Costa was born in Varese, northern Italy, the son of a Rosangela, who worked at the local electric company and Pietro Cicorini, a transport business owner. Costa is the eldest of two children, he and his sister Monica. Costa attended Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore where he studied philosophy. He served his military service as a Carabinieri[2] in the mid 1980s. It was during this that he was discovered in a local Milanese restaurant bar by a modeling scout.
In 2007 Costa took control of Beatrice International Models, an agency with forty years experience in the fashion industry on a par with Ford Models, Elite and Next. Former models include Iman and Stephanie Seymour. The venture catapulted Costa into the international spotlight. The modeling agency also recently began a formal dialogue with the National Eating Disorders Association and its CEO, Dr. Lynne Grefe. Beatrice International Models will be the first international modeling agency that will work together with the association to spread awareness and positive prevention about the diseases that have plagued the industry for decades. In 2007, Costa also opened The Actor’s Academy Milano. Inspired by his experience studying acting in America, Costa began one of the first schools in Europe to exclusively recruit Lifetime Members of the Actor’s Studio—as well as teachers from other prestigious American acting schools including the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, the Beverly Hills Playhouse and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, all of whom specialized in method acting using the system created by Konstantin Stanislavski. The Actor's Academy Milano has hosted acclaimed actors such as Academy Award winner Martin Landau and has organized encounters between academy students and other professionals such as Oscar nominated actor Mickey Rourke. The Actor's Academy Milano has asked Gary Swanson to play a pivotal role in its development. Swanson was one of the first teachers to start "Inside the Actor's Studio" hosted by James Lipton. Swanson was among the few personally chosen by the executive committee that includes the late Paul Newman, Ellen Burstyn, and Arthur Penn.
Costa began an exploration of Buddhism through longtime friend Solange which led to a memorable encounter with the Il Mago Otelma. Costa states that he chants regularly and says that it his religion which keeps him in tune spiritually in the competitive businesses and excessive lifestyles of the entertainment and fashion industries.
| Year | Film / Television Series | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Human Error | |
| 1996 | Un posto al sole | Lorenzo Macchia |
| 1998 | Un medico in famiglia | |
| 1999 | Vivere | Riccardo Moretti |
| 1999 | Finalmente soli | |
| 1999 | Anni '60 | |
| 1999 | Millennium Man | Marco Sanjoni |
| 2000 | Distretto di Polizia | |
| 2000 | Valeria medico legale | |
| 2001 | Una donna per amico 3 | |
| 2001 | Hollow | Detective Santini |
| 2001 | Angelo il custode | Adriano |
| 2003 | The Bold and the Beautiful | Riccardo Moretti |
| 2005 | Il cielo può attendere | |
| 2005 | Ricomincio da me | Luca Biagini |
| 2006 | The Night Before the Exams | |
| 2007 | Live Free or Die Hard | Emerson |
| 2009 | Il Benef Attore | Himself |
| 2010 | Black Tulip | Colonel Tanelli |